MASS MOVEMENT AND MEDIA

THEY DID THEIR RESPONSIBILITY….

‘Tolerance’, when it reaches to maximum level it arrives to a bursting point. I am talking about the latest organized mass behavior led by the ‘Topiwala’ revolutionary Anna Hazare. Evidences establish that media has a great position in popularizing mass movement.

Mass movement and media have a paper and scissors relationship. Media, indisputably, has become very powerful and all pervasive. Famous English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton once said ‘It’s not the world that’s got so much worse but the news coverage that’s got so much better.’

 Now, people form opinion about various issues based on what media feeds them and the way it feeds them. Media stuffs the information into the minds of people in such a way that no scope is left for analysis of facts on the part of viewers or readers.

 Recent revolutions, whether it is movement at Libya or India, their success is due to media’s full to support to them. In Anna Hazare’s movement Indian TV news channels used all tricks and trade to provide unbiased and authentic news information to the public. Almost every Indian was connected to the movement by keeping an eye on the television. Not only were the electronic media print media were also in this race. Everyday, along with the information about movement, articles and editorials were published which motivated people and put before them an analytical view.

 Every time we cannot blame media for its irresponsible behavior. This time media did its job with full candor. It was standing as pillar in the support of right because right is always might.